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Document Details : Title: The Millo Built by Solomon in Jerusalem Subtitle: An Egyptian Building Author(s): SHAPIRA, David Journal: Bibliotheca Orientalis Volume: 81 Issue: 5-6 Date: 2024 Pages: 380-389 DOI: 10.2143/BIOR.81.5.3295090 Abstract : A place called Millo is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible, and scholars have put forward various suggestions as to the meaning of its name and its precise location. Some suggested that it was a site of earthen fill, a retaining wall, or an earthen embankment; more recently, it has even been suggested that it was an engineered repository for storing water. All these suggestions have related to a particular place in the City of David. In this article, I will argue that a place by name of Millo — as mentioned on three occasions in the stories about King Solomon (1 Kings 1-11) — refers to a building that was one of Solomon’s seven major construction projects (1 Kings 9:15), stood on Temple Mount, and was linked to the residences of the king and his queen, who was Pharaoh’s daughter. |
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